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This online learning life coaching course, is a total training programme for any person that is:
Interested in life coaching
Would like to receive a life coaching certification
Interested in coaching themselves, their friends, their family
Interested in coaching as part of CPD
Interested in starting a new career in the field of coaching
Interested in starting their own coaching practice
Interested in how the whole coaching process works
This life coaching course from the Training Academy of Renaissance Life Therapies, is a comprehensive life coaching course.
It has all the advantages of online learning, such as flexibility and convenience, with the advantage of tutor support. Libby Seery, the course creator, offers full support (via Skype, phone &amp; email).
On course completion, you will have a great appreciation of coaching, together with the ability and the skills required to become a life coach. You will also receive a certificate on course completion.
So whether you want to train as a life coach to start a new career, or would like to use coaching for the purpose of self development, this course is perfect.
What is covered in this life coaching course:
Course Introduction
This module takes a look at who the course is intended for as well as the course objectives.
Because of the flexibility of the course, we learn that it perfect for those people who wish to train as a life coach, as well as being an ideal learning experience for those people who wish to work on self progression or continued professional development, as well as those who have an interest in the coaching process.
We also cover that this is the perfect course for those people wishing to start their own coaching practice.
We learn that on completion of this course, you will be able to facilitate positive change, enabling your clients to reach their full potential and achieve your life goals.
You will have an understanding of the principles of Coaching and how to apply those principles to yourself and to your clients’ lives.
You will have a great understanding of what a coach can and cannot do.
You will be able to set goals, make action plans and meet deadlines.
In this module we also get the opportunity to meet the course instructor.
Downloadable Resources
In this module, we learn that there are a whole host of resources for you to download so that you are able to actively practise the various exercises throughout the course, ensuring you get the most from it.
For ease and convenience, we have included all of the resources within this module, and as you progress through the course, we will indicate which of them you need for the specific exercises.
As well as downaloadbles that are needed for specific modules, we have included many that are independent of the modules, and can be used as resources for self exploration.
We have created all of the resources so that you are able to personalise them and make them you're own. This is particularly helpful for those people wishing to train as a life coach and to start their own coaching practice. This means that they are ready for you to upload your company logo and freely distribute them as you wish. In effect, you will have a ready made toolkit.
As well as thought provoking exercises, we have included some templates for administration purposes. Again, this is perfect for those people wishing to start their own coaching practice.
In this module we have included resources, such as:
About Me
Daily Planner
Weekly Planner
Monthly Planner
Are Too Comfortable?
Boost Your Strength Exercise
Creating Your SMART Goal
Day To Day Jotter
How Good Are You To Yourself?
Identify What You’re Tolerating
Letting Go
Life Balance
Live Your Dream
Making New Friends Coaching Exercise
Micro Goals
Mind Map
Mistakes
Pre Coaching Session
Questions For Coaching Session
Questions To Help Move Forward With Your Goals
The Helicopter
This Year’s Goals 4 Steps
Time Chart
Time Management Quarters
What I Want To Achieve This Year
Amazing Goal Setting Exercise
Coaching, Counselling, Consulting and Mentoring
In this module, we cover what each of these terms mean, and how they differ from each other.
Specifically, and with the help of examples, we learn:
Differences Between Counselling &amp; Coaching
Differences Between Mentoring &amp; Coaching
Differences Between Consulting &amp; Coaching
We then finish off this module by recapping with a brief summary of the differences.
The Key Responsibilities of a coach
We look at the primary role of a coach and the responsibility this brings.
Included in this module, are:
Facilitative Role
Highlighting Choices
Encouraging Honesty
Commitment To Success
Focus On The Client
Challenging
Confidentiality
Listening Skills
In this module we look at the five aspects associated with listening.
We learn that there are only two aspects that we should be concerned with regards to the coaching setting.
We learn that empathetic listening is a vital skill that teaches us to listen without judgement, and to be an effective communicator, it is essential to have empathy, trust, understanding and sympathy.
We cover the importance of asking open ended questions, as well as reflection and finally we look at the four way process method.
Questioning
What, Why, When, How, Where, Who.
We cover the percentage of balance between coach and client is 70% listening and 30% questioning.
We learn how different questions provoke different responses. The style of questions we look at include:
Compounding Questions
Leading Questions
Tag Questions
Reflective Questions
Challenging Questions
Reframing Questions
Focusing Questions
Closed Questions
Open Questions
Expanding Questions
Embedded Questions
Comparison Questions
Curious Questions
We also include some questions to ask when you think clients may want to do something new, but they are unsure of what that something is.
T-GROW Coaching Model
This is a proven coaching model which has a clear structure and ensures that the most crucial areas of achieving a goal are thought through and carefully considered.
T-GROW, stands for:
Topic
Grow
Reality
Obstacles / Options
Way Forward
We learn the most effective questions to use with this particular model, in order to get the most from yourself and your clients, and ensuring that you achieve all goals that are set.
SMART Coaching Model
This is another favoured coaching model. It is great for being specific when setting goals ensuring that they are realistic and measurable.
The SMART goal setting method is a five stage process, although it is not a rigid process. It is a checklist that ensures you include the five steps surrounding your goals.
SMART stands for:
Specific
Measurable
Achievable
Realistic
Timed
As part of an exercise, we use the SMART coaching model, in a real life example, of someone who would like to achieve the goal of wanting to earn more money.
Wheel Of Life
The wheel of life is one of the most important tools in the coaching toolkit. It is perfect for beginning the process of identifying goals and areas the client wishes to focus on.
It is simplistic but yet powerful. It provides the client with an instant visual of what it is they want. A client often knows they want something to change, but don’t know where to start, so the wheel of life is a great place to begin.
Each segment of the wheel represent an area of life and focus, such as:
Friends &amp; Social Contacts
Health
Money &amp; Finance
Personal Development Fun &amp; Recreation
Work &amp; Career
Relationships &amp; Romance
Family
Albert Mehrabian Model
This is communication model, which works on the principle that communication is more than just words.
In fact we learn the words you say are just 7% of the message. Pitch, volume and pace make up 38%, and body language accounts for a huge 55%.
This communication model is a great asset for any coach to learn, and for those people wishing to become more effective communicators.
Matching and Mirroring
Mirroring and matching can help build rapport between two people.
Rapport is connecting with another person and sharing a sense of ease, a trust, a familiarity with each other, or more commonly to click with. Good rapport helps with communication and interaction between coach and client. Rapport happens naturally or it can be built.
One key way to help build rapport, is to physically match and mirror the other person.
Clean Language: Its Use In Coaching
Clean language is a communications methodology, developed by David J Grove, a counselling psychologist, during the 1980’s and 1990’s.
Clean language encourages a sense of clarity in communication between people. It offers helpful techniques for people that work closely with other people, such as in coaching.
We cover the principles of clean language and learn the twelve basic questions that accompany the clean language approach. Within these questions, there are certain styles, including:
Developing Questions
Sequence and Source Questions
Intention Questions
Passive Aggressive Assertive Model of Communication
We can identify passive, aggressive and assertive behaviour, by observing the way communication is conveyed.
This module includes an exercise for you to identify sentences, that are either, passive, aggressive or assertive.
How Did You Get on?
In this module, we look at the answers to the passive, aggressive or assertive, exercise. It is a great opportunity to explore your awareness of this style of communication.
How Assertive Are You?
This is a great exercise to discover just how assertive you are. You get the opportunity to score yourself and see where you fall on the scale of being assertive.
Feedback
In this module we learn what feedback is, and why it is so important.
As a coach, giving feedback will expand your clients unknown potential and reduce their blind spots. In fact, effective feedback can improve performance by 39%.
We learn how and why we should own our feedback in order to be constructive, without being critical.
We finish this module by learning the feedback styles of the 2:2 rule, and the feedback sandwich.
Administration
In this module we are introduced to a number of documents that will help you in practising as a life coach.
This is a particularly important section for those people who are interested in training as a life coach and have plans to set up their own life coaching practice.
This section includes information on The Data Protection Act, as well as coaching ethics and standards.
We've also included a coaching client contract that you can personalise by adding your own logo or company details.
Conclusion
In this final lecture we’ll be summarising what we’ve learned throughout the course.
This will help us to make sure, we’ve fully understood the learning objective and successfully achieved it.

In this course, you’ll:
Learn why anger is not a “bad” emotion
Learn a powerful, but positive, way to express your anger
Discover the words to avoid in conversations
Discover the cognitive distortions underneath your anger
Learn how to improve your personal and work relationships
Learn how to turn off your fight or flight response
Create your own Anger Buster strategy
Why take a course on Anger Management? Actually, anger is universal and affects every living person. It comes in many forms, from frustration or mild irritation to outright rage. On any given day, you might experience at least one of these forms of anger.
By taking this course, you’ll have a better understanding of yourself and others, as well as the tools to control your anger instead of letting your anger control you.
My one- hour course includes 8 steps, or videos. Each step includes downloadable resource materials (PDF homework assignments). Completing the assignments gives you insight into your behaviors and feelings as well as an opportunity to try out new behaviors. Doing the homework is an important part of this course if you’re looking for change!
The truth is, anger is a normal emotion. Without this emotion, you’d most likely find yourself in situations where you’re taken advantage of, or doing things that aren’t in your best interest. So, anger is actually a protective mechanism…a signal to pay attention because something feels wrong or threatening.
This course gives anger its due, but also points out the downside of anger. As you probably know, it’s not the emotion that’s problematic, but what you do when you’re angry. The ways you express anger can either resolve the problem or make the problem worse. You can end up getting what you want, or blowing the entire deal, friendship, relationship, or career. That’s why it’s important to understand anger, and how to best express it in a way that doesn’t destroy relationships or derail careers.
As a Licensed Therapist, I’ve helped many people deal with anger. Mastering your anger is a skill that pays off big-time in both your personal happiness and your relationships. Come join me!

In this course, you’ll:
Learn why anger is not a “bad” emotion
Learn a powerful, but positive, way to express your anger
Discover the words to avoid in conversations
Discover the cognitive distortions underneath your anger
Learn how to improve your personal and work relationships
Learn how to turn off your fight or flight response
Create your own Anger Buster strategy
Why take a course on Anger Management? Actually, anger is universal and affects every living person. It comes in many forms, from frustration or mild irritation to outright rage. On any given day, you might experience at least one of these forms of anger.
By taking this course, you’ll have a better understanding of yourself and others, as well as the tools to control your anger instead of letting your anger control you.
My one- hour course includes 8 steps, or videos. Each step includes downloadable resource materials (PDF homework assignments). Completing the assignments gives you insight into your behaviors and feelings as well as an opportunity to try out new behaviors. Doing the homework is an important part of this course if you’re looking for change!
The truth is, anger is a normal emotion. Without this emotion, you’d most likely find yourself in situations where you’re taken advantage of, or doing things that aren’t in your best interest. So, anger is actually a protective mechanism…a signal to pay attention because something feels wrong or threatening.
This course gives anger its due, but also points out the downside of anger. As you probably know, it’s not the emotion that’s problematic, but what you do when you’re angry. The ways you express anger can either resolve the problem or make the problem worse. You can end up getting what you want, or blowing the entire deal, friendship, relationship, or career. That’s why it’s important to understand anger, and how to best express it in a way that doesn’t destroy relationships or derail careers.
As a Licensed Therapist, I’ve helped many people deal with anger. Mastering your anger is a skill that pays off big-time in both your personal happiness and your relationships. Come join me!

This online learning life coaching course, is a total training programme for any person that is:
Interested in life coaching
Would like to receive a life coaching certification
Interested in coaching themselves, their friends, their family
Interested in coaching as part of CPD
Interested in starting a new career in the field of coaching
Interested in starting their own coaching practice
Interested in how the whole coaching process works
This life coaching course from the Training Academy of Renaissance Life Therapies, is a comprehensive life coaching course.
It has all the advantages of online learning, such as flexibility and convenience, with the advantage of tutor support. Libby Seery, the course creator, offers full support (via Skype, phone &amp; email).
On course completion, you will have a great appreciation of coaching, together with the ability and the skills required to become a life coach. You will also receive a certificate on course completion.
So whether you want to train as a life coach to start a new career, or would like to use coaching for the purpose of self development, this course is perfect.
What is covered in this life coaching course:
Course Introduction
This module takes a look at who the course is intended for as well as the course objectives.
Because of the flexibility of the course, we learn that it perfect for those people who wish to train as a life coach, as well as being an ideal learning experience for those people who wish to work on self progression or continued professional development, as well as those who have an interest in the coaching process.
We also cover that this is the perfect course for those people wishing to start their own coaching practice.
We learn that on completion of this course, you will be able to facilitate positive change, enabling your clients to reach their full potential and achieve your life goals.
You will have an understanding of the principles of Coaching and how to apply those principles to yourself and to your clients’ lives.
You will have a great understanding of what a coach can and cannot do.
You will be able to set goals, make action plans and meet deadlines.
In this module we also get the opportunity to meet the course instructor.
Downloadable Resources
In this module, we learn that there are a whole host of resources for you to download so that you are able to actively practise the various exercises throughout the course, ensuring you get the most from it.
For ease and convenience, we have included all of the resources within this module, and as you progress through the course, we will indicate which of them you need for the specific exercises.
As well as downaloadbles that are needed for specific modules, we have included many that are independent of the modules, and can be used as resources for self exploration.
We have created all of the resources so that you are able to personalise them and make them you're own. This is particularly helpful for those people wishing to train as a life coach and to start their own coaching practice. This means that they are ready for you to upload your company logo and freely distribute them as you wish. In effect, you will have a ready made toolkit.
As well as thought provoking exercises, we have included some templates for administration purposes. Again, this is perfect for those people wishing to start their own coaching practice.
In this module we have included resources, such as:
About Me
Daily Planner
Weekly Planner
Monthly Planner
Are Too Comfortable?
Boost Your Strength Exercise
Creating Your SMART Goal
Day To Day Jotter
How Good Are You To Yourself?
Identify What You’re Tolerating
Letting Go
Life Balance
Live Your Dream
Making New Friends Coaching Exercise
Micro Goals
Mind Map
Mistakes
Pre Coaching Session
Questions For Coaching Session
Questions To Help Move Forward With Your Goals
The Helicopter
This Year’s Goals 4 Steps
Time Chart
Time Management Quarters
What I Want To Achieve This Year
Amazing Goal Setting Exercise
Coaching, Counselling, Consulting and Mentoring
In this module, we cover what each of these terms mean, and how they differ from each other.
Specifically, and with the help of examples, we learn:
Differences Between Counselling &amp; Coaching
Differences Between Mentoring &amp; Coaching
Differences Between Consulting &amp; Coaching
We then finish off this module by recapping with a brief summary of the differences.
The Key Responsibilities of a coach
We look at the primary role of a coach and the responsibility this brings.
Included in this module, are:
Facilitative Role
Highlighting Choices
Encouraging Honesty
Commitment To Success
Focus On The Client
Challenging
Confidentiality
Listening Skills
In this module we look at the five aspects associated with listening.
We learn that there are only two aspects that we should be concerned with regards to the coaching setting.
We learn that empathetic listening is a vital skill that teaches us to listen without judgement, and to be an effective communicator, it is essential to have empathy, trust, understanding and sympathy.
We cover the importance of asking open ended questions, as well as reflection and finally we look at the four way process method.
Questioning
What, Why, When, How, Where, Who.
We cover the percentage of balance between coach and client is 70% listening and 30% questioning.
We learn how different questions provoke different responses. The style of questions we look at include:
Compounding Questions
Leading Questions
Tag Questions
Reflective Questions
Challenging Questions
Reframing Questions
Focusing Questions
Closed Questions
Open Questions
Expanding Questions
Embedded Questions
Comparison Questions
Curious Questions
We also include some questions to ask when you think clients may want to do something new, but they are unsure of what that something is.
T-GROW Coaching Model
This is a proven coaching model which has a clear structure and ensures that the most crucial areas of achieving a goal are thought through and carefully considered.
T-GROW, stands for:
Topic
Grow
Reality
Obstacles / Options
Way Forward
We learn the most effective questions to use with this particular model, in order to get the most from yourself and your clients, and ensuring that you achieve all goals that are set.
SMART Coaching Model
This is another favoured coaching model. It is great for being specific when setting goals ensuring that they are realistic and measurable.
The SMART goal setting method is a five stage process, although it is not a rigid process. It is a checklist that ensures you include the five steps surrounding your goals.
SMART stands for:
Specific
Measurable
Achievable
Realistic
Timed
As part of an exercise, we use the SMART coaching model, in a real life example, of someone who would like to achieve the goal of wanting to earn more money.
Wheel Of Life
The wheel of life is one of the most important tools in the coaching toolkit. It is perfect for beginning the process of identifying goals and areas the client wishes to focus on.
It is simplistic but yet powerful. It provides the client with an instant visual of what it is they want. A client often knows they want something to change, but don’t know where to start, so the wheel of life is a great place to begin.
Each segment of the wheel represent an area of life and focus, such as:
Friends &amp; Social Contacts
Health
Money &amp; Finance
Personal Development Fun &amp; Recreation
Work &amp; Career
Relationships &amp; Romance
Family
Albert Mehrabian Model
This is communication model, which works on the principle that communication is more than just words.
In fact we learn the words you say are just 7% of the message. Pitch, volume and pace make up 38%, and body language accounts for a huge 55%.
This communication model is a great asset for any coach to learn, and for those people wishing to become more effective communicators.
Matching and Mirroring
Mirroring and matching can help build rapport between two people.
Rapport is connecting with another person and sharing a sense of ease, a trust, a familiarity with each other, or more commonly to click with. Good rapport helps with communication and interaction between coach and client. Rapport happens naturally or it can be built.
One key way to help build rapport, is to physically match and mirror the other person.
Clean Language: Its Use In Coaching
Clean language is a communications methodology, developed by David J Grove, a counselling psychologist, during the 1980’s and 1990’s.
Clean language encourages a sense of clarity in communication between people. It offers helpful techniques for people that work closely with other people, such as in coaching.
We cover the principles of clean language and learn the twelve basic questions that accompany the clean language approach. Within these questions, there are certain styles, including:
Developing Questions
Sequence and Source Questions
Intention Questions
Passive Aggressive Assertive Model of Communication
We can identify passive, aggressive and assertive behaviour, by observing the way communication is conveyed.
This module includes an exercise for you to identify sentences, that are either, passive, aggressive or assertive.
How Did You Get on?
In this module, we look at the answers to the passive, aggressive or assertive, exercise. It is a great opportunity to explore your awareness of this style of communication.
How Assertive Are You?
This is a great exercise to discover just how assertive you are. You get the opportunity to score yourself and see where you fall on the scale of being assertive.
Feedback
In this module we learn what feedback is, and why it is so important.
As a coach, giving feedback will expand your clients unknown potential and reduce their blind spots. In fact, effective feedback can improve performance by 39%.
We learn how and why we should own our feedback in order to be constructive, without being critical.
We finish this module by learning the feedback styles of the 2:2 rule, and the feedback sandwich.
Administration
In this module we are introduced to a number of documents that will help you in practising as a life coach.
This is a particularly important section for those people who are interested in training as a life coach and have plans to set up their own life coaching practice.
This section includes information on The Data Protection Act, as well as coaching ethics and standards.
We've also included a coaching client contract that you can personalise by adding your own logo or company details.
Conclusion
In this final lecture we’ll be summarising what we’ve learned throughout the course.
This will help us to make sure, we’ve fully understood the learning objective and successfully achieved it.

Being prepared for an active shooter situation can help individuals to act clearly and decisively at a time when every second counts. This course is a starting point to provide people with the reassurance and empowerment they need to go about their daily activities with confidence.

When discussing gender identity and sexual orientation it’s common to hear acronyms used to reference different groups, orientations, and identities. For several years, the most common acronym was LGBT, however to be more inclusive the acronym has evolved into many different forms. In this course we’ll help you understand the pieces that make up the LGBTQIA+ acronym.

We’ve all been in a situation where someone makes an offensive comment, off color joke, or goes as far as bullying or humiliating someone else. If you ignore these comments or acts it sends a signal that they are acceptable. Instead, use the steps in this lesson to “speak out” so everyone can enjoy a safe, inclusive, and harassment free work environment.

A gender-neutral restroom is, when we think about it, a simple idea. We use them in our homes without a second thought. However, in a workplace environment they are a topic of debate. This course will help you understand why gender-neutral restrooms matter and how they work.

Showing empathy is a key skill to develop in a customer service, sales or leadership role. This video details ways to show empathy and how to more clearly understand it. Use the workbook to help complete the questions and empathy plan. There is a workbook for this video.

In this video, you will learn some basics around problem solving techniques. We examine problem solving theory, types of problems and steps you can follow to look at solving problems. There is a workbook for this video.

This 10 minute video explains in detail how you can create a positive first impression of your business to customers. You will learn some key techniques that will be easy to apply in phone and face to face situations. There is a workbook for this video.

In this video, we explain some important aspects around communication and in particular how to listen more effectively. Reflective and active listening are great ways to help ensure you communicate well and help to make sure there is a shared understanding between those communicating. There is a workbook for this video

In this 10 minute video, we explain how to improve you influencing skills. You will learn the six laws of influence, seven traits of influential people as well as the difference between persuading, manipulation and negotiating. There is a workbook for this video.

This 10 minute video contains information on how to deal with various difficult customer types including the non stop talking custmer, angry customers, know-it-all customers and customers with a language barrier. You will learn a number of techniques in dealing with these types of customers. A workbook is available for this video.

In this video, we explain what the benefits and best techniques are for demonstrating great telephone call control. This will help in reducing call times and unwanted additional calls. The benefits are both for you and the customer. There is a workbook for this video.

This is the 10 minute video module on Being resilient. You should download the workbook to use with this video. Understanding resilience and knowing how to become more resilient can really help you and your teams to excel at work and bounce back from difficult experiences. The video module looks at what resilience is and shares some key ways to develop resilience skills. There is a workbook for this video.

This 10 minute video details how you can use your attitude to the best possible advantage. Having a positive attitude is in your control and impacts positively on all those around you. You will learn about ways to improve attitude, dealing with change and motivation factors. There is a workbook for this video.

The world is full of conflicting identities. Every day we see identity-based conflicts which create incivility, inequality, and polarization in all areas of our lives. This course will help you understand why identity matters and how an understanding of identity can improve your interactions with friends, colleagues, customers, and society as a whole.

Geography is central to identity and plays an important role in how people make sense of the world. In the global world of today, it is likely that you will come into contact with more and more co-workers, customers, community members and other stakeholders who come from different parts of the country or globe. As this happens, it becomes more critical for you to recognize how geographic identity and biases influence you, your team, and community members.

An inclusive work environment is created by individuals who value each other’s differences – and, are proactive in stopping workplace discrimination or harassment. It’s often difficult to know how to react when witnessing an individual or group of people experiencing any form of discrimination or harassment - but don’t ignore it and walk away! This course will provide three ways you can be proactive about inclusion in your workplace.